Phillip Crums Public Comments 5-1-26
I'm Phillip Crum, Joe Citizen, co-founder of AMHP.
What's the Problem?
The long-term feminization of the discipline has produced a woke professional mindset that believes a practice should be run on feelings, equality of outcome as long as someone else is paying for it, and virtue signaling. Underlying it all is a group-think, "terminal empathy". The traditional approach to the sciences in this discipline is gone.
- Debate of ideas is viewed as hostility.
- A differing opinion is viewed as intolerance.
- And Intolerance is an existential threat.
- Patriarchy bad. Non-feminized men with an opinion are immediately labeled racist, supremacist, toxic, incel, misogynistic or worse and need to be eliminated, or cancelled.
- If they can't win the argument through intimidation or verbal bullying they pivot to manipulation and emotional outcries with unlimited volume.
- And if they don't agree with the law they ignore it. I believe Kathleen's going to speak directly to that in a moment.
That begins to describe an uncomfortably large segment of our current licensee base.
Short-Term Solution?
The only practical way to control the damage we've done to the overall competency of our licensee base is to enforce the law and limit inappropriate and illegal professional behaviors. We've outlawed GAC but a meaningful rogue segment is choosing to ignore it. These people need to be reported to either BHEC, the AG's Health Enforcement office, or both. Unfortunately, a few heads will need to roll, a few noses bloodied before the defiant get the message and either comply or decide to "pursue other opportunities".
Long-Term Solution?
The long-term solution is to fortify the legal and ethical framework within which this profession operates, to something that represents what the majority of citizens want and believe. We must also dramatically overhaul the academic pipeline that produces our counselors. All of those things are in progress.
TX has outlawed GAC and BHEC has clearly informed its licensees of their duties and obligations. Not surprisingly, a sizable percentage of our political activist licensees have already decided to simply ignore the law. They have no intention of complying. They are thumbing their noses at the State and you, their licensing board, and they believe they can get away with it.
- The accrediting institutions need a top-down overhaul. That's underway through EO 14279 and the DOE.
- Our legacy professional organizations need to be reined in. That’s also happening, same EO. There is too much inappropriate "influence" between them, the accrediting institutions and our universities.
- Universities need to graduate competent professionals and stop minting new social justice warriors. Return "viewpoint diversity" to faculty and curriculum. They should be held accountable for policing their staff for adherence to the law.
We've sacrificed an academic environment of debate and pursuit of objective truth, for a tyrannical, non-inclusive social justice platform that allows no alternate viewpoints.
- The States need to stop licensing incompetent people under the guise of "workforce shortage" and “fairness”. This is a legislative issue. We're living with competence redefined as social justice and validated by lowered standards for admission. We may have a workforce shortage, but licensing incompetent people only solves the problem on paper.
Call To Action
We have a defiant licensee base choosing to place their ideology over state law and their clients' best interests. We have a cadre of rogue professional organizations refusing to honor the law, promoting GAC and political activism in the workplace through their Codes of Ethics. And we have a citizenry in dire straits from the effects of Cultural Marxism including the Covid debacle and GAC who don't know which way to turn. Sitting on our hands is not an option.
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